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Look up: Iceberg

  1. iceberg
    [n] - a large mass of ice floating at sea
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. iceberg
    a massive piece of iceof greatly varying shape, more than 5 m above sea-level, which has broken away from a glacier, and which may be afloat or aground. Icebergs may be described as tabular, dome-shaped, sloping, pinnacled, weathered or glacier bergs Category: The cosmos
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Iceberg
    Ice'berg` noun [ Prob. of Scand. origin; confer Danish iisbierg , Swedish isberg , properly, a mountain of ice. See Ice , and Berg .] A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean. » Icebergs are large detached portions of glaciers, which in cold regions often project into the sea.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/I/1

  4. Iceberg
    An `iceberg` is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off from a snow-formed glacier or ice shelf and is floating in open water Because the density of pure water ice is about 920 kg/m³, and that of sea water about 1025 kg/m³, typically, only one-ninth of the volume of an iceberg is above water. The shape of the remainder under the water can be difficult to surmise from looking at what is visible above the surface. This has led to the e...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg

  5. Iceberg
    • (n.) A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. iceberg
    floating mass of freshwater ice that has broken from the seaward end of either a glacier or an ice shelf. Icebergs are found in the oceans ... [7 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/i/4

  7. Iceberg
    A mass of ice found floating in the ocean or a lake. Often icebergs form when ice calves from land-based glaciers into the water body. Icebergs can be dangerous to shipping in high and mid-latitude regions of the ocean because 90 percent of their mass lies below the ocean surface.
    Found on http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeo

  8. iceberg
    iceberg, mass of ice that has become detached, or calved, from the edge of an ice sheet or glacier and is floating on the ocean. Because ice is slightly less dense than water about one ninth of the total mass of a berg projects above the water. Greenland and other N Atlantic icebergs are usually pea...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08248


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8 November 2009

This day in history:
Just before 11.00am on 8th November 1987 a Provisional IRA bomb exploded without warning as people gathered at the war memorial in Enniskillen for the annual Remembrance Day service. Eleven people were killed and 63 injured, nine of them seriously, when the three-story gable wall of St Michael's Reading Rooms crashed down burying people in several feet of rubble. The Provisional IRA admitted responsibility the following day. read more

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